Sunday, February 04, 2007

Metamorphosis - self portrait on the 23rd day125cmh x 125w1999Inspired by a 'rhythm of life' theme. The kitchen dog represents my monthly 'dog of a day'. She cannot escape as she has been lassooed by the vacuum cleaner. Juxtaposed is the absurd idealisation of domesticity emblazoned on the yellow dishcloths (difficult to see in these photos, they are dancing ballerinas, as on the corner blocks - click to enlarge). A daily diary, embroidered on the contraceptive pills, gives a real picture of my life. A mood graph goes off the scale on the 23rd day, and the 23rd ballerina is peeled back like a chrysalis skin.

2 comments:

Hallo - glad you reffed this one as I might have missed it just scrolling down. I do like this and of course can relate strongly - creative rhythms is a place where I shall be writing quite a lot about so-called labour saving devices...

Quilts and blankets, with all their domestic connotations are interesting me more and more lately as ways of exploring and subverting constructions of femininity, so really glad to see this.

Alison

My illustrated childhood memoir

About my 'memory paintings'.

Inspired by Neil Curtis in his book, 'The Memory Book', my memory paintings catch impressions and moments from my first ten years, in St Andrews, Scotland in the 60's. They are all 12 x 9 cm, mostly pen and watercolour, on Arches HP. They are now published in an 8" x 10" book through Blurb.